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...cities were mostly rubble piles. Typical was Minister. In its streets there was an eerie stillness, broken by a singing bird, a scurrying rat, a few fearful civilians picking their...
...There is a shot made through the slot of a tank of a Japanese soldier trying to evade the machine-gun bullets which stitch the ashes all around him. Bemused, almost hypnotized in his dreadful slowness, fumbling in the footless dust with much the clumsiness of a terrified rat, he half falls, at last, behind a mound. For a moment, before you think, you may hope he has made it alive; but you will never know...
Tokyo's radio had said of General Kuribayashi that he knew every rat hole on Iwo. Extermination was proceeding normally, but cleaning out those holes, yard by yard, would add to the high cost of highly strategic Iwo. Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal reported this week that the cost so far had been the lives of 2,050 Marines...
Sniffs & Snarls. Boss Crump is adept at pitching epithets without catching libel suits. He had his 1,700 words of vituperation-in which the word "rat" appeared 14 times, "liar" 20 times-read aloud in both houses of the Tennessee Legislature, a cleansing process by which slander becomes legally privileged. Then he sent the whole caboodle to the Tennessean by messenger...
...particularly zestful moment came in 1939 when he got so mad at the din from a sewer-construction job near his house that he wrecked a WPA drill with an ax, yelling to the workmen: "I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop!" He was fined...